AI & Work — Weekly Observatory · 19–26 June 2026
Oracle's 10-K is the first big SEC filing to pin workforce cuts on AI: 21,000 jobs gone with $1.8B in severance. OpenAI and Broadcom unveil the Jalapeño inference chip with ~50% claimed savings. Anthropic monetises Fable 5 and lures Nobel laureate Jumper.
The Versailles Stage — Trump Signs Iran, Burnham Challenges Starmer, AI Becomes Infrastructure
Three stages, one week: Versailles, Brussels, Beijing. Trump signs the Iran MoU at Macron's dinner, Burnham wins Makerfield and challenges Starmer, China's 618 anoints AI as retail infrastructure. The G7 and the European Council follow.
AI & Work — Weekly Observatory · 15–22 June 2026
Commerce halts Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5; restored 18 June with nationality-based controls. G7 Évian: AI CEOs pitch a US-led coalition. EU picks Italian-led EUROPA consortium for a 24-language frontier model. PwC: 62% AI wage premium. Accenture -20% on AI guidance.
The Sunday of Five Stages — Politics as Spectacle, Establishment in Fatigue
Sunday June 14 staged five competing spectacles in one news cycle: Trump's birthday parade, the 'No Kings' national concert, Vannacci's party launch in Rome, Geneva G7 riots and the 'complete' Iran deal. The week's question: how long can performance substitute politics?
Apple surrenders to Gemini, AI tops layoff reasons for the third month: the fortnight that closed an era
Weekly observatory, week ending June 8, 2026 — Apple-Google deal (confirmed Jan 12, 2026): a 1.2T Gemini for Siri at ~$1B/year; consumer launch expected at the WWDC keynote scheduled for the evening of June 8. Challenger reports 97,006 May cuts, 40% AI-attributed — third consecutive record
Crises That Normalise — Europe Reorganises, America Sings, China Mocks the Censor
June 2-8: AfD breaks record at 29% in Germany, Starmer reassembles Cabinet, 'No Kings' becomes a concert on June 14, Trump at 38.6% floor, China's MSS blames 'foreign forces' for lying-flat — internet replies with memes.
Crises That Settle, Not Explode
May 15–June 1: AfD overtakes CDU in Germany, Starmer fights to survive, No Kings claims 8 million protesters in all 50 US states, and Shenzhen's ICIF 2026 consecrates AI as China's cultural engine.
Fault Lines Converge: War, Protest, and the Search for Anchoring
Orbán falls in Hungary, millions protest across the US, the Hormuz oil crisis sends prices past $100, and Trump clashes with Pope Leo XIV. Our April 2026 Observatory tracks how war, energy shock, and cultural re-anchoring are reshaping the global landscape.
The New Deal for Intelligence: AI, Jobs and the Race Against Disruption
45,000 tech jobs lost in March, Sam Altman proposes a “New Deal” for superintelligence, and the Anthropic-Pentagon case reaches the courts. AI is no longer disrupting work in theory — it is doing so in real time. April 2026 edition.
No Kings, No Anchors: Society in the Age of Disorientation
8 million Americans marched under "No Kings", Europe governed by decree, China recorded 845 million Qingming trips, Gen Z exited algorithmic social media. One common thread: a global search for fixed points in an age of disorientation. April 2026 edition.
Democracy Resists, Squares Fill, Laws Change: The World in the Last Fortnight of March
La fine di marzo 2026 cristallizza un paradosso: i sistemi democratici appaiono simultaneamente sotto stress e resilienti. I cittadini votano...
From experimental adoption to organisational restructuring: AI is transforming work
Le istituzioni confermano una dinamica scomoda: l'IA non sta solo sostituendo lavoro, lo sta polarizzando
Permanent polarisation, geoeconomic competition and new global equilibria
gennaio 2026 restituisce l'immagine di un sistema globale in cui la polarizzazione politico-culturale non è più un fenomeno episodico, ma una condizio
When society stops running and starts looking for a home
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